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  • Under development: CattivikHey there I started making a new game "Cattivik" based on the cartoon character invented by Italian cartoonist Bonvi [url]http://www.youtube.com/wa…

    Indeed, I saw the video yesterday and the game looks good.
    It seems you can draw quite good graphics! and you are really fast writing games!
    Ivanzx Ivanzx March 2013 Development
  • Under development: CattivikHey there I started making a new game "Cattivik" based on the cartoon character invented by Italian cartoonist Bonvi [url]http://www.youtube.com/wa…

    ... graphics! and you are really fast writing games![/QUOTE]


    gabriele amore gabriele amore March 2013 Development
  • Under development: CattivikHey there I started making a new game "Cattivik" based on the cartoon character invented by Italian cartoonist Bonvi [url]http://www.youtube.com/wa…

    ... long as there is enough fast memory to put it in ... said I am thinking of writing 2 or 3 more short ...
    gabriele amore gabriele amore March 2013 Development
  • Fastest redraw of screen from UDGsHere's a question for everyone, to generate a bit of code to be used in games: On a standard 48K Spectrum, what's the fastest way to redraw the scre…

    ... in alternate words in the character map too, so you use ... to call up the next character routine then POP HL to ... the graphics into a self-writing set like that at the ...
    joefish joefish March 2013 Development
  • Fastest redraw of screen from UDGsHere's a question for everyone, to generate a bit of code to be used in games: On a standard 48K Spectrum, what's the fastest way to redraw the scre…

    ... *768=3072 bytes for the character map and 25*256=6400 ... T-states which is really fast for a task like this ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas March 2013 Development
  • MegaManZXMega Man for ZX Spectrum [center] [IMG]http://i45.tinypic.com/2ho90rd.gif[/IMG] [IMG]http://i49.tinypic.com/dzt7bd.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://i49.tinyp…

    ... brick character, now I see there are 2 different ones. Fast scrolling ... what you meant by single character it just went over my ...
    Sadako Sadako March 2013 New game ideas
  • I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…

    ... />
    Also, the main villain character must be the worst boss ... supposed to kill him reasonably fast.

    OTOH, some parts ...
    Patrik Rak Patrik Rak March 2013 Chit chat
  • I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…

    ... />
    Also, the main villain character must be the worst boss ... supposed to kill him reasonably fast.

    OTOH, some parts ...
    Vampyre Vampyre March 2013 Chit chat
  • I'm very illA few weeks back I passed out/blacked out in the bathroom and woke up on the floor with a terrible pain in my chest. In the fall I somehow broke my …

    ... time sitting at a desk writing, and the paper work gets ... are flooding in thick and fast. It needs to be contained ...
    Dunny Dunny March 2013 Chit chat
  • I am currently reading...Haven't noticed one of these threads, so here goes... I'm currently reading (depending on my mood...!): - [B]The Jesus Papers[/B] - Michael Baigent…

    ... dating back 50,000 years...writing is dated and the science ... warlord. Interesting idea and decent writing combined nicely here....not brilliant ... really emphasizing with the main character....which for reason that become ...
    Wookiee Wookiee March 2013 Chit chat
  • Time for all games to become (legally) available?It just came to me that none of us are getting any younger. Not much of an earth-shattering statement I know, but more came of this original thought.…

    ... in a few years, the character and even the whole of ... it, I won't bother writing these books that will, inside ...
    ewgf ewgf March 2013 Games
  • I thought I'd give assembly a goAnd well being an absolute newb,I'm absolutely useless.I need your help. I thought I'd give this a go in zxspin [url]http://chuntey.wordpress.com/20…

    ... hard to start from nothing. Writing in an advanced compiled basic ... and writing modular bits is far easier ... might /even/ find compiled basic fast enough generally. But I see ...
    Gedlion Gedlion March 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • Printing textThis is probably quite a basic question, or there might be something obvious I'm missing. I'm looking for an economical way of printing formatted te…

    You might be better off writing your own text printing routine where using a control character moves the text down to the next line without resetting the column number to zero.
    rich_chandler rich_chandler April 2013 Development
  • Circumspect - A Spectrum Emulator for learningThis is a project that I have been playing around with for a while. It must be said, I tend to have problems getting things finished where hobbies a…

    ... if you really insist on writing your own, use a [ ... are sometimes genuine reasons for writing a Z80 core from scratch ... though! :-) JSSpeccy depends on a fast JavaScript interpretor (or perhaps more ... code. This meant that after writing the Z80 emulation core, I ...
    zub zub April 2013 Emulators
  • Spectrum text adventures with music - are there any?I was playing the C64 version of Kentilla and rather enjoying [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SX0gIf1Hg4E"]Rob Hubbard's in-game soundtrack[/URL…

    ... a way out of here, fast!"[/I]

    A text ... thing would need a Korean character set and translation.

    leespoons leespoons April 2013 Games
  • I share the Ultimate moonlighting project....I announce this here FIRST, I suspect this post might get deleted quickly, but it is right to come here first, WoS is after all the home for this kin…

    ... was spent on that than writing the games….
    [LIST]
    character set, each character set is replaced from ...
    Korinel Korinel May 2013 Games
  • DIVMMC, a new compact interface for ZX SpectrumAfter a long gestation period and a short period of testing, Mario Prato, member of the Italian [URL="http://apuliaretrocomputing.wordpress.com/"]Apu…

    ... use new extra ram for fast screen backup (not need swap ... can write new fast flash utility (use sector writing) for install systems ...
    velesoft velesoft May 2013 Hardware
  • I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…

    ... look at times and your character narates the story as you ... story is played as your character telling his life story to ... />
    Gameplay wise, it's fast paced, but you can play ...
    Bermondsey Bob Bermondsey Bob June 2013 Chit chat
  • Horizontal Scrolling/Per Character gamesHello. Can anyone give me the titles of some Speccy games (preferably good ones, but I don't mind hearing about bad ones too) that scroll the playin…

    ... hidden screens, but the really fast and clever ones do it ... way it only scrolls the character cells that contain scenery. The ... screen has moved a whole character space. The second tricky bit ... in turn.

    With character scrolling you might want to ...
    joefish joefish June 2013 Games
  • Horizontal Scrolling/Per Character gamesHello. Can anyone give me the titles of some Speccy games (preferably good ones, but I don't mind hearing about bad ones too) that scroll the playin…

    ... screens, but the really fast and clever ones do ... you're using whole character spaces, then you could ... it only scrolls the character cells that contain scenery. ... has moved a whole character space. The second tricky ... with Cobra, well, fast and smooth and a great ...
    Ivanzx Ivanzx June 2013 Games
  • bug in bin2tap.pyhi! some time ago i coded a converter from binary to .tap, that seems to write wrong checksum or something like? [url]http://pastebin.com/mP5Tg0bG[/…

    ... 're building up the 10-character filename, then checking the file ... high and low byte, then writing the filename to your workspace ... , then writing the file size bytes to ...
    gasman gasman June 2013 Development
  • esxDOS v0.8.5 released (with TR-DOS emulator)Yup, you read right! Now with TR-DOS emulation! More info and download here: [url]http://www.esxdos.org/[/url] Enjoy :)

    ... ) as reading from IDE. Only Writing data to SD/MMC card ... of tested SD cards with fast writing access.

    About compatibility ...
    velesoft velesoft June 2013 Announcements
  • esxDOS v0.8.5 released (with TR-DOS emulator)Yup, you read right! Now with TR-DOS emulation! More info and download here: [url]http://www.esxdos.org/[/url] Enjoy :)

    ... ) as reading from IDE. Only Writing data to SD/MMC card ... of tested SD cards with fast writing access.[/QUOTE]

    Yes ...
    phoenix^ra phoenix^ra June 2013 Announcements
  • Does a bad sequel/episode in a book/game/film/etc series kill the series for you?I meant to post this yesterday, but didn't get the time, but someone I was talking to said they used to love the Resident Evil series almost obsessiv…

    ... a rather dull and annoying character! He's the sort of ... a character that has nothing but worries ... found it to be. The writing of that passage/transition in ...
    ZnorXman ZnorXman June 2013 Chit chat
  • Does a bad sequel/episode in a book/game/film/etc series kill the series for you?I meant to post this yesterday, but didn't get the time, but someone I was talking to said they used to love the Resident Evil series almost obsessiv…

    ... it, is that they stop writing them from the ground up ... situations then wonder what the character would do' at which point ...
    chop983 chop983 June 2013 Chit chat
  • Relocation with SDCCI desperately need auto- relocation with SDCC. Something that will compile all of my code using start address 0 and generate relocation table so that…

    ... a human, I start by writing the code for the innermost ... I want to produce something fast. Then I move to the ... worry about making it run fast later". Or to put it ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous June 2013 Development
  • Type in game with font generatorBack in the day I can remember a BASIC type in game that generated its own font by PLOTing extra pixels next to the PRINTed characters existing pixel…

    ... pixel. It was really a character [i]set[/i] editor, and ... I ran out of memory writing it, and had to cut ...
    JonB JonB June 2013 Games
  • CODE SCREEN$ in MCIs there any way of determining what character is displayed at a certain co-ordinate from machine code like the 'IF CODE SCREEN$=' arrangement in bas…

    ... without (a) writing your own routine to recognise a character pattern or ... honest you're better off writing your own routine as you ...
    rich_chandler rich_chandler June 2013 Development
  • esxDOS v0.8.5 released (with TR-DOS emulator)Yup, you read right! Now with TR-DOS emulation! More info and download here: [url]http://www.esxdos.org/[/url] Enjoy :)

    ... ) and use port #E7 for writing (only for write) and #EB ... for writing and reading.

    New ... . DIVMMC need 8bit ports for fast transfer data blocks between SD ...
    velesoft velesoft July 2013 Announcements
  • The Official Crap Games Competition 2013 Thread!Just to announce that the 2013 CGC is OPEN! [IMG]http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n608/daveyboyhughes/cgctitle2_zps77591934.jpg[/IMG] And for th…

    ... start of my snake as fast as possible). EDIT: I will ... is). EDIT2: And the only writing that gets done to the ...
    Paradigm Shifter Paradigm Shifter July 2013 Games
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